The "Show the now-playing panel" 'feature' keeps turning on after restart.

[AnneMVoss]

I am on Mac (latest version of OS and Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon)
1.2.29.605.g66a43ceb.

I HATE the Now-Playing featuer with a vengance.
I turn it OFF in settings.
I quit Spotify (or reboot Mac or whatever) and this IRRITATING "feature" is turned ON again in the settings.

How can I keep it turned off (or better, can Spotify remove this "feature" entirely please).

[Joan]

Hi there @AnneMVoss,

Thanks for reaching out.

We tested this extensively on our end and weren't able to reproduce this behaviour. The panel should stay however you've left it even after a restart of the app and/or device. Meaning, if the panel is closed, it should stay closed unless you open it manually, likewise if you leave it open, it should stay open.

Could you please try the following:

• Does this same thing happen on the webplayer on the same device?
• Try a clean reinstall if you haven't already.
• Disable hardware acceleration.

Hope this helps.

[AnneMVoss]

So far the issue seems resolved. I had changed the Language of the Spotify app to English (UK) and back to Dutch and ever since then the problem has not resurfaced.

[Maria]

Hey @AnneMVoss,

Thanks for keeping us in the loop and for letting us know what worked for you!

We're happy to hear it's back on track, that's great news 🙂

Should anything else appear, the Community is here for you. 

Cheers!

[AnneMVoss]

Aaaand.... it's back. 😞 

I just started playing a playlist from the button on top of the playlist instead of by just starting play with a single track.

Makes me look at Apple Music more and more. 😞

[Joan]

Hi @AnneMVoss,

Thanks for the reply. Does it happen only when starting from the big play button? Does the previous trick with changing the language help?

Let us know how it goes.

[andreww__j_]

Hi there,

Just want to add I have the same issue, both on an M1 MacBook Pro, and an M3 MacBook Pro, latest Spotify update. 

[wesyancy]

Same here. I've turned it off dozens of times at this point. New updates or restarts of the software both re-enable the feature. I've opened settings and turned it off as I said dozens of times, and I can't get this stupid 'feature' to play nice. I use the feature very very little, yet I can't get it to stay away. Please introduce a fix. All other settings seem to stay, only this one continues to re-enable itself. 

[kvndvn]

Having the same issue Spotify for macOS (Intel) 1.2.45.454.gc16ec9f6 on macOS Sonoma 14.5 
It seems like when I restart the laptop the now-playing feature is re-enabled and I get the tooltip info explaining what the feature is. It's very annoying.